Stephen J Dubner talks with Michael Porter Michael Porter, Business Analyst and Katherine Gehl Katherine Gehl about how the late 20-teens American Democrat and Republican party interaction acts like a duopoly.
Freakonomics Radio, America's Hidden Duopoly (Podcast)
- the political machine is not a public institution
- The political duopoly doesn't address customer complaints
- The parties fail to reach consensus on landmark legislation
- The five key inputs to political competition
- The duopoly's true target customers are not the American people
- The duopoly works well together to insure competition is kept out
- The duopoly hoards resources
- The duopoly doesn't compete for voters
- The duopoly co-opted the media.
- The duopoly can ignore the American people
- The bipartisan actors created the rules to their own game
- The Populace Isn't Committed to Non-Partisan Political Reform
- The Political-Industrial Complex is massively lucrative
- The Political Parties Exist To Fight Eachother
- Political Industrial Complex
- Most Americans are unhappy with the services rendered by the government.
- In a duopoly, you don't get to choose what you'd LIKE
- Founding fathers dreaded partisanship
- Five Forces of Competitiveness
- Elections are rigged against competition
- Current American politics is designed to disappoint the American people
- American politics hosts as massively-lucrative industrial duopoly